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OpenSlide: A Vendor-neutral Software Foundation for Digital Pathology

Overview
Journal J Pathol Inform
Specialty Medical Informatics
Date 2013 Nov 19
PMID 24244884
Citations 187
Authors
Adam Goode
Benjamin Gilbert
Jan Harkes
Drazen Jukic
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
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Abstract

Although widely touted as a replacement for glass slides and microscopes in pathology, digital slides present major challenges in data storage, transmission, processing and interoperability. Since no universal data format is in widespread use for these images today, each vendor defines its own proprietary data formats, analysis tools, viewers and software libraries. This creates issues not only for pathologists, but also for interoperability. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of OpenSlide, a vendor-neutral C library for reading and manipulating digital slides of diverse vendor formats. The library is extensible and easily interfaced to various programming languages. An application written to the OpenSlide interface can transparently handle multiple vendor formats. OpenSlide is in use today by many academic and industrial organizations world-wide, including many research sites in the United States that are funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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